Annie Dillard

This is a good start page from the New York Times. On it you'll find a photo and lots of links to articles about and by Dillard, discussing her life and her work. (Free registration required.)

Want some more information about Dillard's working life? Click here for her homepage at Wesleyan University. It has a photo, some information about her work, and a brief biography.

These pages about mysticism in Pilgrim at TinkerCreek contain a very good biography, and a discussion of the book's imagery, as well as a Dillard bibliography.

This page has an excerpt from Dillard's personal narrative, For the Time Being.

This interview from BookPage.com has the author discussing her first novel, The Living.

Dillard has written a book about writing called The Writing Life. The author of this review generally likes Dillard's work, but not this book. Read the review and decide whether you'd like to pursue The Writing Life further. (Free registration required.)

This page contains the citation for Dillard's Pulitzer Prize, which she won in 1975 for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

Has reading Dillard sparked your interest in nature writing? Want to do some research on the field? This page of nature links is a great place to start.

Interested in pursuing the mystical and spiritual aspects of Dillard's work? This essay from CrossCurrents.org examines her writing in the light of "ecotheology" and is well worth a careful look.